well-oiled machine

Noun

 * 1) Something that operates capably through the effective coordination of many parts.
 * 2) * 1850, The Knickerbocker; or, New-York monthly magazine, "Editor's Table", p. 573:
 * The writer is never enthusiastic and rarely Imaginative. His lines flow with the smoothness of a well-oiled machine.
 * 1) * 1850, The Knickerbocker; or, New-York monthly magazine, "Editor's Table", p. 573:
 * The writer is never enthusiastic and rarely Imaginative. His lines flow with the smoothness of a well-oiled machine.
 * The writer is never enthusiastic and rarely Imaginative. His lines flow with the smoothness of a well-oiled machine.